Healers that don't want to DPS are like DPSes who refuse to move out of AoEs.

[Greedalox]

Then it would appear that both point are moot in the end. Me trying to scapegoat with an outed design flaw is the same as scapegoating a playstyle.

The difference is you're trying to make the worst out of a bad situation.

[SenorPatty]

The difference is you're trying to make the worst out of a bad situation.

How?

I don't know if you've read some of my other posts in this thread but just to reiterate, I am advocating playstyle differences.

I would hate to think that I'm the only player in my server or across servers who on a daily basis in DF roulettes, on average my parties are good. Sometimes even greater than expected and once in a long while pretty bad.

During the good runs, sometimes I've had healers who only healed but our dps was already over the top to begin with so it wasn't noticeable.

So in the end, it basically boils to what you can or can't stomach, even during a good run. As I've said in another post, as long as the flow of the run is smooth and good to me, I don't care if the healer is only healing. If they dps, even better. I'm not against that.

Unfortunately, there are people who can't stomach that. For them, its a visual eyesore seeing inaction because of the mentality that since they're always doing something in a run, everyone else should be doing it too, including the healer. For others, its impatience. Doesn't matter that the run is already going fast to begin with (tank mass pulling, dps melting everything), healer has to dps to save that extra minute. And for others, its ego. If they're already giving their 100% by their standards, so should everyone else, healer included.

Do what you can and if you can't, so be it but let us not get caught up about what healers should be doing when they're already fulfilling their primary obligations in faceroll content.

[Greedalox]

How?

Well, I think we both agree that FF14 has a huge design flaw with Healer uptime. The difference is how we advocate making the best out of the bad situation of Healers not having to heal (That much). I say Healers should FEEL obligated to fill that vast empty time. I can't do anything about it besides try to make a point of these forums. You chock up nebulous need for heals to play style. If you feel being lazy for ANY class and not just healer is a play style, then I don't know what to tell you other than that feels like just another way of saying "I don't want to do very much at all."

You can tell when healers are struggling. It's not the ones who are AFK. That's where my issue lies, not with those who spam and overheal out of discomfort.